Please add function to populate person-column by assignees to another person-column

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I have many different use cases where this is needed.
Just one example for clarification:

I want the person responsible for an item to be assigned to a subitem when the status changes to “review”.

So far a workaround would be to set up an automation for every single person in the agency which includes two triggers:

When Status changes
and only if person is someone

I could then choose that the person who is specified in the second trigger will be the assignee.

this gets immensely time-consuming and prone to errors due to the number of people.

So why is there no way to simply use an automation like

when Status changes
assign [people column] as person

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Please add this feature as soon as possible!

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This would really be helpful for me aswell

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this is still needed and I still don’t understand why this function does not exist.
I would alternatively be very happy for any workarounds that can work dynamically without specifying each employee manually.

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I am no expert… and still trying to figure out Monday.com myself but i think there is a way to do this? You can set the 2nd automation to say when status is ____ then assign person A & Person B?

5

No this does not exist. You can only select the people who are assigned directly via dropdown and not dynamically from a column.

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We have an app for automations about assignees called Auto Assign.
We do not have this feature but If you provide us any specific use case we will try to add this feature to our Auto Assign app.

For example:
Do you need to assign people in people column in order when status changes to something?

Or status changes to something add people col 1 to people col 2 ?

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I will gladly give you our use cases:

  1. We switch assignees according to status changes:
  • we have a supervisor-column for each project
  • a worker is manually assigned to a task
  • the same person is automatically assigned to a second column
  • a supervisor replaces the assignee to this same task when the status changes to review/sign-off
  • the worker(s), who is assigned in the second column, replaces the supervisor again in case there is no sign-off
  1. We want automations to trigger only when a status is changed by a person
    I do not think we can work with automatic assignments in this case. Because if we would make the automation that is supposed to trigger depended on an assigned column that wouldn’t filter out status changes made by an automation since the column is assigned no matter who changes the status.
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Upvoting, this would be a very helpful feature for my content team. We really need some version of:

when Status changes to “revising”
assign “author” as “assigned to”

currently I can only build this with “assign creator as x”, and the author is not the item creator in our workflow

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Hey I think my feature request is similar? Maybe drop me a vote as well if you agree?;

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